Developing baxter

Author

Fitzgerald, Conor

Author_Institution

Training Dev. & Delivery Rethink Robot., Boston, MA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

22-23 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper provides insight into the process that engineers at Rethink Robotics are using to develop a user-friendly experience for Baxter, a new industrial robot with common sense. For the purpose of this paper, the user experience centers around three core areas of development: the functionality of the robot, the intuitive UI and Use Cases being tested, along with the ensuing applications for the initial release of the robot´s software. Personas aid UI designers in establishing accurate assumptions about users and Use Cases enable Software Quality Assurance engineers to test Baxter on real world applications to ensure that the robot successfully performs the types of tasks that are needed by U.S. Manufacturers. The paper also includes a number of customer applications that are well suited for Baxter.

Keywords

human computer interaction; human-robot interaction; industrial manipulators; intelligent robots; software quality; user interfaces; Baxter; Rethink Robotics; U.S. manufacturing; common sense; customer applications; industrial robot; intuitive UI; robot functionality; robot software quality assurance; use cases; user friendliness; user interfaces; Personnel; Plastics; Reliability; Robot sensing systems; Applications; Personas; Use Cases; User Interface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Woburn, MA

ISSN

2325-0526

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6223-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TePRA.2013.6556344

Filename

6556344